Before the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, there were several years when UK headlines were fixated on a single issue: Brexit. As the UK embarks on a new chapter with the European Union, Tobias Pearce caught up with some of the UK’s leading coffee businesses to find out what Brexit means for them – and how claims from across the debate have stacked up
An historic victory for free trade and sovereignty or colossal act of economic self-sabotage? What Brexit means for the UK and how it’s going remains contentious. As the dust settles from years of intense negotiations, UK coffee and hospitality businesses face a very different economic landscape following the loss of free movement and access to the Single Market and Customs Union.
Few could have predicted that following the 2016 referendum, the UK hospitality industry would face a global pandemic and the economic shockwaves from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
